{"id":387911,"date":"2018-12-05T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rand-paul-declares-war-on-the-deep-state\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:24:09","slug":"rand-paul-declares-war-on-the-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rand-paul-declares-war-on-the-deep-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Declares War On The Deep State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think the very definition of the deep state is when the intelligence communities withhold information from Congress\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>December 5, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Rand Paul declared war on the deep state in a press statement Tuesday, noting that he and his Senate collegaues were excluded from a briefing with CIA Director Gina Haspel concerning the killing of Saudi reporter Jamal Khashoggi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only people allowed into the briefing were a few select lawmakers sitting on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Foreign Relations Committee and Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are eight people in Congress who get briefings on intelligence,\u201d Paul said. \u201cThat is not democracy. That is not democratic representation nor is it democratic oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lur7lf2VzRk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the very definition of the deep state is when the intelligence communities withhold information from Congress,\u201d Paul added, noting that he had to try to find out details of the briefing from the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not share information with the entire Senate?\u201d Paul tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Director of the CIA has arrived in the Senate, yet almost every senator has been excluded. Why not share information with the entire Senate on MBS\u2019 role in the killing of a journalist? Saudi Arabia continues to spread radicalism &amp; we shouldn\u2019t continue to blindly support them <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xfCIL3LnWU\">pic.twitter.com\/xfCIL3LnWU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1069999667994345473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul expanded on his comments in a further interview with Fox News:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m3pyAgFkMWk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the very definition of the deep state. The deep state is that the intelligence agencies do things, conclude things, make conclusions, but then the elected officials are prevented from knowing about this,\u201d\u00a0Paul\u00a0told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Paul added that \u201cthe deep state\u201d will continue to amass \u201cmore power\u201d until the status quo changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we aren\u2019t told about this and I\u2019m not allowed to know about these&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-rand-paul-declares-war-on-the-deep-state.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think the very definition of the deep state is when the intelligence communities withhold information from Congress\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comDecember 5, 2018 Senator Rand Paul declared war on the deep state in a press statement Tuesday, noting that he and his Senate collegaues were excluded from a briefing with CIA Director Gina Haspel concerning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}